Example sentences of "[vb past] [prep] me [prep] [art] [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | It occurred to me for the first time that he might not know whether or not I 'd lost the baby . |
| 2 | The coy attitude with which the Press still view this and other sexual matters is illustrated by the experience recounted to me by a well-known columnist . |
| 3 | His dark eyes flickered at me like a long sooty flame , then he looked down again . |
| 4 | The sun crept towards me over the red tiles . |
| 5 | After a word with his clerks , Henniker came with me into the other room . |
| 6 | ‘ It came from me in the first place , did n't it ? |
| 7 | and then he came to me as a last hope |
| 8 | He was a highly educated gentleman , a very well known Varsity athlete , but he came to me with a bad report that he was completely and utterly clueless about some of the finer points of simple take-off and landing procedures . |
| 9 | My Pop came to me with an old Army pistol in his hand , knelt beside me and said , ‘ If you want me to kill him , I will . |
| 10 | George Kidner came to me in a great state of mind because he has been asked to appear before a committee consisting of C. Bathurst , Peto & C. Mills & sitting at Central Office . |
| 11 | Erm Mr referred to er put great store it seemed to me on the long term effectiveness of of of reducing er building . |
| 12 | Britain , in the mid-1970s , seemed to me like the promised land of progressive education . |
| 13 | The violence of this transition became more cushioned for me in the mid-seventies , when we built our bamboo and coconut-wood home in the highlands of Bali , which for seven years now has served us as a sort of decompression chamber between the two worlds . |
| 14 | Exactly the same thing happened to me at the same stage when I was pregnant . ’ |
| 15 | This happened to me on the Seven Mile Straight at recently , a lorry coming in the opposite direction in spite of road signs . |
| 16 | No one mentioned it was essential training as a motoring correspondent to have a car crash , but it happened to me in the same gruesome circumstances that confront hundreds of motorists every week . |
| 17 | I have no memory of anything that happened to me in the last ten years . ’ |
| 18 | His head turned on me with a snake-like swiftness , accusingly , but he said nothing . |
| 19 | When the red light went out after my closing announcement , Mr Murray turned to me with a broad grin ‘ Was that all right ? ’ he asked , and I shook his hand acknowledging his ad-lib masterpiece . |
| 20 | He sank it and turned to me with a real glint in his eye and said something like , ‘ Now let's go . ’ |
| 21 | As the lock slid shut , she turned to me with a merry grin . |
| 22 | I remarked on this once to Mr Dakin and the old man turned to me with a wry smile . |
| 23 | He frowned at me with a long look in which I read nothing . |
| 24 | That name clearly struck a chord in McIllvanney , for he frowned at me for a few seconds , but the chord must have faded for he shrugged it off . |
| 25 | Kodiak the Alsatian barked at me for a few minutes , and gave up in resignation . |
| 26 | People drifted in and out , not acknowledging one 's presence , and my only meeting with Joan 's mother was when she rushed past me with a vague smile and a tennis racquet . |
| 27 | For three days this terrible possibility hung over me like an appalling nightmare , but then the agony was lifted — the prognosis was brighter . |
| 28 | She glanced at me in an odd way . |
| 29 | Before she left for Moscow , Semenyaka talked to me about the British public 's fond picture of Russians as a nation of artists , who dance because they need to . |
| 30 | And it illumines too the politics of personal relations : the vital fabric of social life that exists in the silence between people — exactly that space which is filled by music : ‘ As the person talked to me in a conventional conversation , I knew , I heard that , inside himself , the person perhaps wept . ’ |